פַּרְזֶלparzel

iron (Daniel 2:40; Daniel 2:33; Daniel 4:12; Daniel 2:34; Daniel 4:20)

Pronunciation: par-zel' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6523

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 20 times in the Bible.

  • Daniel 2:33 its legs were iron, and its feet were a combination of iron and baked clay.
  • Daniel 2:34 As you watched, a rock was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands. It struck the feet of iron and clay, smashing them to bits.
  • Daniel 2:35 The whole statue was crushed into small pieces of iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold. Then the wind blew them away without a trace, like chaff on a threshing floor. But the rock that knocked the statue down became a great mountain that covered the whole earth.
  • Daniel 2:40 Following that kingdom, there will be a fourth one, as strong as iron. That kingdom will smash and crush all previous empires, just as iron smashes and crushes everything it strikes.
  • Daniel 2:41 The feet and toes you saw were a combination of iron and baked clay, showing that this kingdom will be divided. Like iron mixed with clay, it will have some of the strength of iron.
  • Daniel 2:42 But while some parts of it will be as strong as iron, other parts will be as weak as clay.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).